BeckStock Blogotubing
Aug 28, 2010 Glenn Beck
My one man coverage of the gathering of the Beckerheads begins! Will update after I get my coffee…
Wow, a two-hour coffee break? Not really! FUCK COMCAST. These mysterious internet outages are the main reason I’m getting out of this apartment. Assuming that I can stay online, I’ll pick up now with the Reverend C.L. Jackson, awarded a medal to soaring Olympic music who has so far called Glenn Beck a “man of God…son of God” at least twice and connected this event to the “dream” speech for the audience. Followed by a voiceover from Beck while white people fan themselves.
Tony LaRussa steps up to award the medal for “hope.” Not the man from hope, of course, but a medal. When the awardee Allen Bujols (baseball player) steps up to the mike, he’s got nothing but accented praise for Beck and Jesus because they are they same thing.
“That is America. That is charity. That is American charity.” Beck’s voiceover comes with Depression-era photos: “today, charity has been lost,” he says, defining it as church or family-provided. “Real” charity sets man free because it comes without that pesky GOVERNMENT. Get it? The honoree, Jon Huntsman, has been married for fifty years and has 56 grandkids, making him slightly less fecund than an Amish patriarch. Having built a family fortune on fast-food containers, he has donated bazillions of dollars for cancer hospitals, universities, and so forth. And he’s Mormon, too, apparently, which explains why Beck would know about him. “Charity is not tax deductible, it’s not about getting your name recognized on a plaque.” This at a “charitable” event awarding medals. A black woman steps up to accept the award “in the name of Jesus Christ” and to praise Beck as “one of our most trusted and honored citizens.”
Beck’s voiceover lecturing about the MLK dream speech to bored-looking, overheated white people? Classic! Playing MLK’s speech aloud? Perfect! But that is NOT 300k people.
Beck wants us to meet two people who are “at risk” for saying what they believe. The first is Dr. Alveda King, yet another African American wind-up toy. Conveniently named for her uncle, the late Dr. Martin Luther King, she offers yet more praise to the deity and asks the crowd to “rebuild” America. A line of black people then walks onstage so Angelica Tucker can sing about rebuilding minds and hearts — get it?
And after another Comcast blackout, Beck claims “the media” has said the crowd is “three hundred thousand” or “five hundred thousand people.” (“The media” probably includes Wing Nut Daily, I’m thinking?) His anecdote about George Washington shows the man reluctant to govern — a perfect small-government fantasy not grounded in reality.
And with that, Comcast had another fit and I gave up in disgust.
Tags: astroturfing, beck, dc, freedomworks, glenn, koch, Kochs, lincoln, memorial, protest, rally, tea party
Glenn Beck On Gay Marriage
Aug 12, 2010 Glenn Beck, gay
Is Glenn Beck endorsing gay marriage? Not so much:
In a conversation with Bill O’Reilly on why he avoids culture war issues, Beck admitted that he doesn’t think marriage should be a political issue.
“Honestly, I think we have bigger fish to fry,” Beck said. “You can argue about abortion or gay marriage or whatever all you want. The country is burning down…I don’t think marriage, that the government actually has anything to do with…that is a religious right.”
Two things: (1) this reminds me of the time known fabricator Andrew Breitbart attended the Tea Party Convention in Nashville and got into an argument with WingNutDaily WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah about the Obama birth certificate nontroversy. Breitbart, like Beck, did not debunk the nontroversy, but merely suggested it was a loser. Beck is basically admitting that Adam and Steve are out of the closet, looking fabulous, and never going back in.
(2) Beck “cares” about churches in the sense that Prop 8 was pushed very hard by the LDS church to which he belongs. Other than that, I doubt he could define the 1st Amendment rights and speech constraints of the LDS church and he knows exactly nothing about the history of marriage in America. One of this country’s greatest inventions was to make marriage a purely civil matter. His own marriage certificate was issued by a county officer and sanctioned by a state.
It’s not a change of heart or centrist cred for Beck. Just more of the same idiocy from the same idiot:
Tags: gay, Glenn Beck, idiocracy, marriage
Glenn Beck on the Republican party
Aug 6, 2010 Glenn Beck
Normally the only Beck I listen to has two turntables and a microphone, but I was watching Glenn Beck last night, and I just can’t believe my ears. He was finally honest about the Republican party. Check out the video. ~Captain Coolaid.
Tags: Glenn Beck, lucifer, obama, satan, videos
Glenn Beck’s Logic Circuit Diagrammed
Jul 7, 2010 Glenn Beck, Samsara of Wacky™
Did you know that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl? It’s on the internet, so it must be true. Quick: someone get me a pimp costume, a hottie, and a microcamera!
The Samsara of Wacky is a closed circuit.
Morning Awful: Glenn Beck Recycles
Jul 7, 2010 Glenn Beck, Morning Awful
Glenn Beck recycles the New Black Panther-scare story:
Regular readers will recall this nontroversy has been dissected here and here.
It strikes me there is a biological parallel in “mad cow disease” being caused by the forced cannibalism of corporate agriculture. Beck “mashes up” (1) facts without context, (2) complicated chalkboard conspiracies, and (3) lies before feeding them to the masses.
The Morning Awful
Jun 2, 2010 Glenn Beck, Morning Awful
Know what, Glenn? Love of Woodstock and the space program are not mutually exclusive. And if you want to measure my American-ness by my support for NASA, then I’ll do the same with you and TVA.
FreedomWorks Sponsors Beck
May 20, 2010 Asshat, Glenn Beck, Republican Front Groups, astroturf politics
It had to happen; Beck was running out of potential sponsors. Via Karoli at C&L:
Actually, it surprises me that it took this long for the astroturf front organization to just go ahead and sponsor their biggest booster on Faux Noise.
Ignorance Is Strength
May 18, 2010 Glenn Beck, Psychological Projection
Beck at the commencement for Liberty University yesterday:
God is the truth. The truth will consume everything that is not true. … The world is full of lies.
In other words, don’t believe science or history or facts. Believe only what fits the agenda of proper political piety. Reject the truth and substitute the truth provided. It’s fitting he would deliver such an Orwellian address at Liberty, which is an institution with an Orwellian name: students can be reprimanded for seeing an unapproved PG-rated movie, the Democratic Party is banned from campus, and all 1st Amendment activity on campus must be approved in advance.
The reason Beck sees tyranny everywhere is because he is the tyranny. The reason he accuses the president of racism is that he is racist. His act is all psychological projection. Again: Beck is NOT a journalist or even an entertainer; he’s a propagandist for an incredibly stupid, vile, and ugly form of authoritarian politics.
He is NOT a patriot. Vap-O-Rub tears don’t make it so.
